Wildlife
Autumn is often a good time to observe butterflies with freshly emerged red admirals, peacocks and small tortoiseshells to be seen. Southern hawker and common darter dragonflies are both very active, the Bower pond is good place to sit back and enjoy them.
We say goodbye to many species of bird as they move south, although you can still often observe large numbers of swallows and martins feeding in the parkland busily fuelling up for the long flight to Africa.
Moving in from the north come flocks of redwings and fieldfare, large numbers of finches can also be seen and pink footed geese can often be heard flying over.